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Over 100 Libyan army members defect from Gaddafi
Reuters – Mon May 30, 1:58 pm ET

ROME (Reuters) - Eight high-ranking Libyan army officers appeared in Rome on Monday saying they were part of a group of as many as 120 military officials and soldiers who had defected from Muammar Gaddafi's side in recent days. Full Story »
Israel minister: Strike on Iran could be necessary
AP – Mon May 30, 3:24 pm ET

MOSCOW - An Israeli Cabinet minister said the civilized world must take joint action to avert the Iranian nuclear threat, including a pre-emptive strike if necessary. Full Story »
Ex-navy commando, brother detained after Pakistan base attack
Reuters – Mon May 30, 6:44 am ET

Reuters

LAHORE, Pakistan (Reuters) - Pakistani security officials have detained a former navy commando and his brother in connection with last week's militant attack on a naval air base, intelligence officials and relatives said on Monday. Full Story »
Memorial Day marked by parades, flyovers, flags
AP – Mon May 30, 11:13 pm ET

AP

WASHINGTON - Americans from the nation's capital to Alaska marked Memorial Day with parades, somber reflection and even a climbing expedition in a holiday infused with fresh meaning by the approaching 10th anniversary of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks. Full Story »
Beneath Jerusalem, an underground city takes shape
AP – Mon May 30, 12:09 pm ET

AP

JERUSALEM - Underneath the crowded alleys and holy sites of old Jerusalem, hundreds of people are snaking at any given moment through tunnels, vaulted medieval chambers and Roman sewers in a rapidly expanding subterranean city invisible from the streets above. Full Story »
US condemns conviction of 7 Vietnamese activists
AP – Tue May 31, 12:50 am ET

HANOI, Vietnam - The United States has condemned the conviction of seven Vietnamese land rights activists, including a church pastor, during a one-day closed trial in the communist country. Full Story »
South African president: Gadhafi ready for truce
AP – Mon May 30, 11:16 pm ET

AP

TRIPOLI, Libya - Moammar Gadhafi is ready for a truce to stop the fighting in his country, the visiting South African president said Monday after meeting the Libyan ruler, but he listed familiar Gadhafi conditions that have scuttled previous cease-fire efforts. Rebels quickly rejected the offer. Full Story »
14 dead in Germany as food poisoning crisis grows
AFP – Mon May 30, 10:08 pm ET

AFP

BERLIN (AFP) - Germany held crisis talks amid reports that at least 14 people have died and hundreds are ill in an outbreak of a highly virulent strain of bacteria found on imported cucumbers. Full Story »
Bangladesh woman cuts off 'attacker's' penis
AFP – Mon May 30, 3:34 am ET

AFP/File

DHAKA (AFP) - A 40-year-old Bangladeshi woman cut off a man's penis during an alleged attempted rape and took it to a police station as evidence, police in a remote part of Bangladesh said Monday. Full Story »
'Ethnic cleansing' in Sudan?s Abyei: monitors
AFP – Sun May 29, 9:59 am ET

AFP/HO

JUBA, Sudan (AFP) - Fresh satellite images of Sudan?s flashpoint Abyei area provide evidence of war crimes committed by the northern army, including "state-sponsored ethnic cleansing," monitors alleged on Sunday. Full Story »
Yemen warplanes bomb Islamists who seized town
AP – Mon May 30, 9:34 pm ET

AP

SANAA, Yemen - Yemeni forces opened fire on a protest camp and killed more than 20 demonstrators Monday in the southern city of Taiz while government warplanes launched airstrikes on another southern town seized by radical Islamists. Full Story »
US medics brave fire to save lives in Afghan war
AP – Mon May 30, 8:30 am ET

AP

FORWARD OPERATING BASE EDINBURGH, Afghanistan - U.S. Army medic Sgt. Jaime Adame hauled open the door and lunged from the helicopter into a cloud of dirt and confusion. Full Story »
Libyan leader renews ceasefire call
Reuters – 2 mins ago

AFP

TRIPOLI (Reuters) - Under pressure from a new round of defections, Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi renewed a ceasefire call in talks with an African mediator but gave no sign he will heed Western-led demands that he step down. Full Story »
Karzai gives US ultimatum on civilian deaths
The Christian Science Monitor – Mon May 30, 10:32 am ET

Kabul - Hours after reports appeared that a NATO air strike had killed 14 civilians in Helmand Afghan President Hamid Karzai issued an ominous statement, giving his “last warning” to US officials. Full Story »
Brazil federal leaders discuss Amazon conflict
AP – Mon May 30, 6:33 pm ET

AP

RIO DE JANEIRO - Brazil's government will protect rural activists and increase policing in its Amazon rain forest in an effort to stem deadly disputes over illegal logging, officials said following a meeting Monday on how to halt the violence. Full Story »
Egypt activist summoned for criticizing military
AP – Mon May 30, 4:08 pm ET

AP

CAIRO - A prominent Egyptian activist was summoned Monday for questioning by the country's military rulers over comments criticizing their human rights record. Full Story »
Afghan soldier kills Australian comrade
AFP – 1 hr 51 mins ago

AFP/HO/ISAF Regional Command (South)/File

SYDNEY (AFP) - Two Australian soldiers have been killed in Afghanistan with one of them shot dead by a local trooper who then fled the scene, the government said Tuesday. Full Story »
27 dead as bus plunges into pond in India
AP – Tue May 31, 1:25 am ET

GAUHATI, India - A bus carrying a wedding party plunged into a large pond in India's remote northeast, killing at least 27 people, an official said Tuesday. Full Story »